Welcome to Event Organisers, Keynote Speaker Agencies and Production Teams

Here is ALL the information you need in one place. Futurist Keynote Speaker Patrick Dixon is always delighted to talk to event organisers, (and their clients), at an early stage.

PHOTO: IMAX Cinema Keynote - "Future of Corporate Ethics: great business in the right way for a better world" - avoiding reputational risk, scandal, crisis and disaster - Keynote for one of the world's largest multinationals. This content was shaped precisely to fit launch of their new Code of Conduct for 40,000 people, including Carrefour which they own.

Just like the one above, every keynote is carefully customised in a co-creation process, working really closely with each team, so every image and keynote element fits precisely into the big theme of the event, aligned with other parts of the programme, key CEO messages and so on. He often shares the platform with Global CEOs of multinationals, right at the start of their largest and most important internal conferences or client events.

Patrick Dixon has worked with over 400 of the world's largest corporations in every industry, and in every part of the world over the last 20 years, presenting on a huge range of topics, themes, opportunities and trends, usually with some kind of Futurist theme, but also speaking on strategy, leadership, risk management and many other issues.

While content always varies, his style is always entertaining and visually engaging, highly interactive and energetic, challenging, thought-provoking and mind-changing. Audiences remember his keynotes for a very long time, and a huge number of new invitations come from people who have heard him speak before.

Patrick Dixon has been ranked as one of the world's 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50) and is often described in the media as Europe's leading Futurist. Read FREE SAMPLE of The Future of Almost Everything - his latest book.

He is Chairman of Global Change Ltd author of 16 books, and has travelled to 53 nations, addressing corporate events, workshops and seminars as well as boards and senior teams of multinationals on future strategy and trends such as technology, mobile marketing, consumers, banking, insurance, energy, manufacturing, risk, innovation, geo-politics, change management and agile leadership.

World-class conference keynote speakers are very rare. Awful keynote speakers are sadly very common, dreaded by audiences. You can tell if a keynote speaker is going to shine in a couple of minutes. With great keynote speaker there's a powerful emotional and mental connection, a big stage presence, an energy which captivates, the whole auditorium lights up. Being a keynote speaker is not a logical or rational thing only. Videos are a very poor tool to capture the experience of being part of a live audience that is being "worked" by a pro. It's almost mystical - connection of one person with hundreds or thousands is primary skill of world-class keynote speakers.

I have spoken at major corporate events for over 400 of the world’s largest multinationals, often sharing the platform with their global CEO. Here, and in links below, are some of the secrets of success.

Event organisers get promoted or fired - here's why

Organising corporate events is a very risky activity (and so is speaking at them). Organisers are likely either to get promoted or fired. And a keynote speaker can become famous or be totally disgraced in a single evening.

The stakes are often extremely high to get events right. Take a hotel industry event I gave a keynote at recently: 800 CEOs of the world's leading hotels all in the same room, flying in from all over the world to a global team conference in Qatar.....

Future of entertainment, fashion, media and film or cinema. Future of the music industry, EMI, Sony and live musical performances. Thumb test. Live theatre and theatre audiences. Great leadership - connect with audience passion. How to give world-class...

Around 400,000 people have watched this video clip and / or read this article, which closed a keynote on the future of mobile telecom. The question is why? Event organisers and keynote speakers are not always an accurate guide to what will set an audience on fire - at that moment, in that situation, touching them deeply in a way they remember for a decade to come. Conference speakers can make or break your corporate event, workshop or seminar. Get the best corporate lecturer around and your reputation as a conference organiser will shine like the sun. Make a mistake with a keynote presentation in your conference programme and it's the end of your career. Find out what to look for when you want to book a world-class conference speaker. Watch some examples. Looking for a world-class conference speaker? Phone or e-mail Patrick Dixon now. Read FREE SAMPLE of The Future of Almost Everything - his latest book.

See how I cloned myself onstage in a "hologram" at a corporate event in a theatre for TEB in Istanbul. One of me (virtual clone) was walking about in a future world of 2020, on the same stage as the other of me (in the present), having a conversation with each other. Watch the rehearsal (the illusion looked perfect on the day - lighting still to be adjusted as you can see). Futurist trends and technology forecasts for client event organised by TEB bank. Banking trends, mobile banking payments, demographics, future of marketing...

"Brilliant communicator who really cares about his audience and his clients"

Select from more than 350 recent presentations and keynote speeches by Dr Patrick Dixon for multinational companies. You can also watch over 350 videos. No static slides or videos can do justice to large-scale multimedia 2D or 3D events, which have more in common with the experience of theatre - interactive, dynamic, provocative and entertaining as well as profoundly challenging and often disturbing. Dr Dixon is often described in the world's media as Europe's leading Futurist and has been ranked as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50 2005 survey). He is Chairman of Global Change Ltd and a Director of Global Innovators Ltd. Style and content of presentations varies hugely with size of audience, nationalities present, audience interests, corporate in-house seminar, client event or business school classroom. Each multimedia package is created in a unique process, in close consultation with event organisers. Discuss your own event today: phone or e-mail Patrick Dixon now.

Structure of one day session, used by Patrick Dixon in different
adaptations very successfully with global leadership teams of
multinational clients, and also as a training tool / strategy development
exercise for senior leaders in custom Executive Education programmes at
London Business School and elsewhere. Such days have generated new rapid-start ideas / initiatives with potential value in excess of $150m a year, as well as many profound longer term benefits. Objectives: sharpen senior
team thinking about important global trends, opportunities, innovation,
risks, and their potential impact on future strategy plus related issues.
Strengthen group-wide view in a highly interactive process which has
immediate practical impact. Challenging institutional blindness, one of
the greatest risks to any large corporation – especially where most
senior leaders in the company more than 5 years. Need a world-class strategy keynote speaker for your event? Phone or e-mail Patrick Dixon now.

Scenarios for Growth: Whatever your industry and whatever your background, the survival issues facing your company and your working environment can be boiled down to one word - Future.

Dr. Patrick Dixon brings the future alive by offering a thought-provoking and dramatic “Journey to the Future”: a "total immersion" in the future of your working life – a unique discovery experience that will change how you think and feel about tomorrow. Write your company's annual report for 2015 (unless you went bust in 2014 that is), listen to your CEO being interviewed in 2020 about the technological breakthrough in 2013 that kept you ahead of the competition and read the business pages in 2015 (the future has newspapers too) about how you revamped your brand to meet your customer's new desires and values before they even knew they had them, reflect on how society changed through 2010 to 2016 and how it affected your home, leisure, priorities and personal relationships.

Whether you have 5 people for a day or 5,000 for a week, we offer you The Future of...well, whatever you want. The Future of People, The Future of Travel, The Future of Money, The Future of Entertainment, The Future of Communication, The Future of Health, The Future of Marketing, The Future of management.

May seem a strange thing - to run a silent conference - but what should an event organiser do if you are short of breakout rooms for workshops and seminars? Answer: run several groups in the main auditorium, using speaker microphones and receivers similar to those used when listening to live interpreters. Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker and futurist explains how it works. Future of corporate events, lectures, presentations, keynotes, workshops and seminars. Leadership, motivation, marketing and management seminars with multiple workshops and seminars in same conference hall. Video made at Globe Forum Sustainagility conference session.

"Brilliant communicator who really cares about his audience and his clients"

Every presentation is customised after close discussion with event organisers, to create a high impact, entertaining, provocative, very interactive and relevant multimedia experience for audiences ranging from 20 to 3,000 - in 2D or spectacular 3D imaging. Dr Dixon tests opinion of each audience with "straw polls" and probes what they actually think themselves about future challenges, often walks around audiences and engages them personally.

Most presentations are opening keynotes, setting the scene for all that follows. Dr Dixon works hard to dig deep into organisational strategy and culture, with the help of each client, and aims to bring practical insights that are vitally important to the future of the corporation, taking into account everything else in the programme, and the priorities of the senior executive team.

There is an element of consultancy in most presentations: far more than an off-the-shelf standard lecture.

Organisers usually feel after working with Dr Dixon that they have found a friend: someone who understands the huge pressures they are under to make a great success of their event, and who is passionate about helping them make it happen. That is why he usually arrives the day before an event, offers to write articles, makes himself available for media interviews, signs every book that organisers buy to give participants (yes he has signed 1,400 for just one event), publishes his presentations online, makes conference videos available on / from his website, provides free access to 300 other presentations, and the entire text of 6 books and so on.

There is usually a strong focus on the future in every presentation, while also addressing urgent challenges facing the corporation / industry right now. There is a warm, practical, personal dimension, reflecting the fact that Dr Dixon first trained as a physician, looking also at what it means for individuals, families and friends, connecting with passion and ending with an inspiring challenge to make a difference.

Video of keynote at Google travel industry event - structure around Futurewise - Six Faces of Global Change - see below. The FUTUREWISE lecture is based on the book of the same name. The FUTURE is spelt:

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